As spring approaches, there’s magic in the woods. Trees almost defy gravity when the sap stored in their roots begins flowing upward. And the Lake County Forest Preserves takes advantage of that ...

March: The season of sap and soil. In the forest, lines are strung between maples and the trees are tapped, ready for the month's alternating low and high temperatures to send sap flowing beneath the ...

Spring is still coming on, albeit a bit slower than last year and maybe a bit slower than we'd like. But the sunny days and just-below freezing nights last week made for perfect conditions to get the ...

You can celebrate this sweet symbol of winter’s nearing end with some upcoming events in the area. “Maple sugaring is the process of taking maple sap and cooking it down into syrup or sugar,” said ...

But just how long it will last and how quickly it will flow depends on the weather. Warm daytime temperatures followed by freezing weather at night have been the perfect scenario to start tapping tree ...

Like Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz," Kristin Tindall sends children on a yellow-brick road of discovery. Tindall is instructing sixth-graders from C.A. Frost Elementary School to follow ...

The vernal equinox happens this year on Tuesday, March 20, at about 7:30 a.m. central time. This is the moment at which darkness equals light at the equator (hence the name of equinox). To most of us, ...